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Why he matters: With Seth MacFarlane, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among his top clients — all of whom he has repped “forever,” he jokes — Austen has watched his rising stars become A-listers. What did he think of MacFarlane’s jokes — “boobs song” and all — at the Academy Awards? “Seth was hilarious at the Oscars, and it capped off an amazing year for him.”

Big deal: Along with inking a deal for Simon Kinberg to write and produce X-Men: Days of Future Past, Austen is helping turn Gordon-Levitt’s startup website hitRECordJoe into a show on the new Pivot network.